ses were burned
before the flames could be put out. The Free Press published, as a
mere rumor, that the immediate cause of the outbreak had been an
impending "scurrilous attack" in the New Day upon one of the political
gangs of the slums and its leader. The Associated Press, sending forth
an account of the riot to the entire country, represented it as a fight
between rival gangs of workmen precipitated by the insults and menaces
of a "socialistic party led by a young operator named Dorn." Dorn's
faction had aroused in the mass of the workingmen a fear that this
spread of "socialistic and anarchistic ideas" would cause a general
shut down of factories and a flight of the capital that was "giving
employment to labor."

A version of the causes and the events, somewhat nearer the truth, was
talked about Remsen City. But all the respectable classes were well
content with what their newspapers printed. And, while some
broad-minded respectabilities spoke of the affair as an outrage, none
of them was disposed to think that any real wrong had been done.
Victor Dorn and his crowd of revolutionists had got, after all, only
their deserts.

After forty-eight hours of careful study of public opinion, Dick Kelly
decided that Remsen City was taking the dose as he had anticipated. He
felt emboldened to proceed to his final move in the campaign against
"anarchy" in his beloved city. On the second morning after the riot,
all three newspapers published double-headed editorials calling upon
the authorities to safeguard the community against another such
degrading and dangerous upheaval. "It is time that the distinction
between liberty and license be sharply drawn." After editorials in
this vein had been repeated for several days, after sundry bodies of
eminently respectable citizens--the Merchants' Association, the
Taxpayers' League, the Chamber of Commerce--had passed indignant and
appealing resolutions, after two priests, a clergyman and four
preachers had sermonized against "the leniency of constituted authority
with criminal anarchy," Mr. Kelly had the City Attorney go before Judge
Lansing and ask for an injunction.

Judge Lansing promptly granted the injunction. The New Day was
enjoined from appearing. The Workingmen's League was enjoined from
holding meetings.

Then the County Prosecutor, also a henchman of Kelly's, secured from
the Grand Jury--composed of farmers, merchants and owners of
factories--indictments against